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                                        <td class="text-paragraph-pattern-container mobile-resize-text " style="padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0 0 10px 0; padding-top: 10px"> <span class="diffcontext">This&nbsp;is&nbsp;probably&nbsp;going&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;frowned&nbsp;upon&nbsp;by&nbsp;purists,&nbsp;but&nbsp;until&nbsp;there&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;way&nbsp;to&nbsp;configure&nbsp;hibernate&nbsp;to&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;@Embedded&nbsp;fields&nbsp;are&nbsp;non-null,&nbsp;I've&nbsp;written&nbsp;an&nbsp;AspectJ&nbsp;to&nbsp;populate&nbsp;the&nbsp;value&nbsp;if&nbsp;null.<br /><br /></span> <span class="diffaddedchars" style="background-color:#ddfade;">This&nbsp;isn't&nbsp;fully&nbsp;tested,&nbsp;and&nbsp;definitely&nbsp;not&nbsp;tested&nbsp;against&nbsp;Collections&nbsp;of&nbsp;embedded&nbsp;objects,&nbsp;so&nbsp;buyer-beware.<br /><br /></span> <span class="diffcontext">{code}<br />public&nbsp;aspect&nbsp;NonNullEmbedded&nbsp;{<br /><br /> //&nbsp;define&nbsp;a&nbsp;pointcut&nbsp;for&nbsp;any&nbsp;getter&nbsp;method&nbsp;of&nbsp;a&nbsp;field&nbsp;with&nbsp;@Embedded&nbsp;of&nbsp;type&nbsp;Validity&nbsp;with&nbsp;any&nbsp;name&nbsp;in&nbsp;com.ia.domain&nbsp;package<br /> pointcut&nbsp;embeddedGetter()&nbsp;:&nbsp;get(&nbsp;@javax.persistence.Embedded&nbsp;*&nbsp;com.company.model..*&nbsp;);<br /> <br /><br /> /**<br /> &nbsp;*&nbsp;Advice&nbsp;to&nbsp;run&nbsp;before&nbsp;any&nbsp;Embedded&nbsp;getter.<br /> &nbsp;*&nbsp;Checks&nbsp;if&nbsp;the&nbsp;field&nbsp;is&nbsp;null.&nbsp;&nbsp;If&nbsp;it&nbsp;is,&nbsp;then&nbsp;it&nbsp;automatically&nbsp;instantiates&nbsp;the&nbsp;Embedded&nbsp;object.<br /> &nbsp;*/<br /> Object&nbsp;around()&nbsp;:&nbsp;embeddedGetter(){<br /> Object&nbsp;value&nbsp;=&nbsp;proceed();<br /> <br /> //&nbsp;check&nbsp;if&nbsp;null.&nbsp;&nbsp;If&nbsp;so,&nbsp;then&nbsp;instantiate&nbsp;the&nbsp;object&nbsp;and&nbsp;assign&nbsp;it&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;model.<br /> //&nbsp;Otherwise&nbsp;just&nbsp;return&nbsp;the&nbsp;value&nbsp;retrieved.<br /> if(&nbsp;value&nbsp;==&nbsp;null&nbsp;){<br /> String&nbsp;fieldName&nbsp;=&nbsp;thisJoinPoint.getSignature().getName();<br /> Object&nbsp;obj&nbsp;=&nbsp;thisJoinPoint.getThis();<br /> <br /> //&nbsp;check&nbsp;to&nbsp;see&nbsp;if&nbsp;the&nbsp;obj&nbsp;has&nbsp;the&nbsp;field&nbsp;already&nbsp;defined&nbsp;or&nbsp;is&nbsp;null<br /> try{<br /> Field&nbsp;field&nbsp;=&nbsp;obj.getClass().getDeclaredField(fieldName);<br /> Class&nbsp;clazz&nbsp;=&nbsp;field.getType();<br /> value&nbsp;=&nbsp;clazz.newInstance();<br /> field.setAccessible(true);<br /> field.set(obj,&nbsp;value&nbsp;);<br /> }<br /> catch(&nbsp;NoSuchFieldException&nbsp;|&nbsp;IllegalAccessException&nbsp;|&nbsp;InstantiationException&nbsp;e){<br /> e.printStackTrace();<br /> }<br /> }<br /> <br /> return&nbsp;value;<br /> }<br />}<br /><br />{code}</span> 
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